STAR Capital Partnership LLP
STAR Capital Partnership LLP is a private equity firm specializing in the industry consolidation; acquisition, recapitalization, and development of capital assets and capital-asset based business. It considers a range of investment opportunities including standard management buyout and buy-in deals of whole businesses or divisions. The firm also seeks to provide growth capital either through a re-capitalization, where it takes a direct interest in its portfolio company, or by creating a joint venture acquisition vehicle. It seeks to invest in turnaround, middle market, mature and small mid-sized companies. The firm basically prefer to invest in healthcare and public services, specialist industrial, structured finance, TMT, transport, utilities, and strategic assets. The firm’s focus is on capital-intensive industries and it actively seeks investments in the sectors including utilities with a focus on power generation, distribution and transmission networks, CHP assets, energy contracting, and water treatment; transportation with a focus on airports, ports, roads, railways, bus and rail franchises, ticketing, gate systems, specialist shipping, logistics, and car parks; oil and gas with a focus on refineries, petrochemical facilities, midstream assets including pipelines, and storage LNG, gas storage; telecommunications with a focus on network management, services, cellular and fixed line networks, backbone infrastructure; industrials with a focus on beverage manufacturing, specialty printing, metal processing, processing plants, manufacturing facilities, support infrastructure, and maintenance facilities; and healthcare and public services with a focus on hospitals as well as PFIs and care facilities /PPPs, schools, student accommodation. It also seeks to invests in waste management with a focus on waste incineration and metal recycling; facilities management with a focus on maintenance services and spare parts management, financial services with a focus on back office processing and ATM networks; agribusiness with a focus on food manufacturing. The firm typically invests in companies located in Western Europe, more specifically within the European Union or the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). It also invest in Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Iceland, Greece, Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Austria. It prefers to invest between €15 million ($21.42 million) and €90 million ($128.56 million) in companies with an enterprise value of between €50 million ($71.42 million) and €1 billion ($1428.45 million). The firm prefer to have majority stake in companies. The main focus of the firm’s strategy is to act as a capital partner and seeks a strategic position in the portfolio company. The firm invests independently or with existing industry partners and business owners. STAR Capital Partnership LLP was founded in 2000 and is based in London, United Kingdom, with additional office in Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France.